How to not be broke:
- Set a 5 year goal. “I want $x in on 1/1/2031”.
- List benchmarks where you need to be each quarter.
- Make a plan to get you to each next benchmark (and execute).
- Don’t worry about future steps, just the next step in front of you.
- Track weekly
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I have 12 failed businesses.
Audiobooktopia. Podman. WP Mechanic. P2P Lending News. And more.
People see MarketBeat and assume I have the golden touch.
What they don't see is the decade of failed experiments that preceded it.
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One of the best VCs of all time just wrote that this is the most important principles when building a successful career slash company...
"Of all the tools available for growth, an engaged peer network might be the most powerful and beneficial.
It's one of the most under-discussed elements in personal and professional development."
That investor is Bill Gurley. He wrote that in his book Runnin Down a Dream.
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I scraped the Hampton Slack for book recs
1,000+ founders, 18 months of data.
Here's what people who’ve built companies are reading:
Psychology of Money - Housel
Die With Zero - Perkins...
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Action is the foundational key to all success.— Pablo Picasso
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Turns out HubSpot isn't dead. 💀
I gave Claude Code 30 days of AppSumo software costs ($100,000) total.
Asked it to analyze cost, effort, maintenance of replicating all the software we are using.
It found ~$500 / month in costs but many of the "dead" SaaS products it did not recommend changing.
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